National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #22 (pt. 2)

National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #22 (pt. 2)

Here is my Day 22 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write a poem that engages with another art form.

I wrote this poem while looking at the image below (which I drew on April 13th), and listening to a couple of ECM recordings: Dallëndyshe, by the Elina Duni Quartet, and What was said, by Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad.

Pulseout the brooding greyinto fields of blistered red and blackbuffered by amberformed by tissue and fibrethe wounds of centuriesspoken in sombre chamber tones

Emergein light and linesimperfect symmetryetched into fleshwithout scarring(that is what memoryand history are for)marking the true centre

Be ambitiousin matters of the heart

(22 April 2019)

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